LEADER 04344nam 2200721 450 001 9910815350103321 005 20211009001656.0 010 $a0-8122-0889-7 024 7 $a10.9783/9780812208894 035 $a(CKB)3710000000077192 035 $a(OCoLC)870097639 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebrary10819829 035 $a(SSID)ssj0001179550 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11721207 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0001179550 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)11184632 035 $a(PQKB)10732698 035 $a(MdBmJHUP)muse32985 035 $a(DE-B1597)449802 035 $a(OCoLC)961587457 035 $a(DE-B1597)9780812208894 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL3442313 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10819829 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL682649 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC3442313 035 $a(EXLCZ)993710000000077192 100 $a20131227d2014 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcnu|||||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 14$aThe making and unmaking of a saint $ehagiography and memory in the cult of Gerald of Aurillac /$fMathew Kuefler 205 $a1st ed. 210 1$aPhiladelphia, Pennsylvania :$cUniversity of Pennsylvania Press,$d2014. 210 4$dİ2014 215 $a1 online resource (317 p.) 225 0 $aThe Middle Ages Series 300 $aIncludes English translation of the Vita Geraldi brevior. 311 0 $a1-322-51367-8 311 0 $a0-8122-4552-0 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $tFront matter --$tContents --$tNote on names --$tMaps 1 and 2 --$tIntroduction --$tChapter 1. Prolegomenon on the Dating and Authorship of the Writings about Gerald of Aurillac --$tChapter 2. The First Saint Gerald --$tChapter 3. The Second Saint Gerald --$tChapter 4. Saint Gerald and the Swell of History --$tChapter 5. Saint Gerald and the Ebb of History --$tChapter 6. The Modern Cult of Saint Gerald --$tConclusion --$tAppendix 1. Translation of the Vita sancti Geraldi brevior --$tAppendix 2. The Manuscripts of the Vita Geraldi --$tNotes --$tBibliography --$tIndex --$tAcknowledgments 330 $aA crusader, a hermit, a bishop, a plague victim, and even a repentant murderer by turns: the stories attached to Saint Gerald of Aurillac offer a strange and fragmented legacy. His two earliest biographies, written in the early tenth and early eleventh centuries, depicted the saint as a warrior who devoted his life to pious service. Soon Gerald was a venerated figure, and the monastery he founded was itself a popular pilgrimage site. Like many other cults, his faded into obscurity over time, although a small group of loyal worshippers periodically revived interest, creating sculpted or stained glass images and the alternate biographies that complicated an ever more obscure history. The Making and Unmaking of a Saint traces the rise and fall of devotion to Gerald of Aurillac through a millennium, from his death in the tenth century to the attempt to reinvigorate his cult in the nineteenth century. Mathew Kuefler makes a strong case for the sophistication of hagiography as a literary genre that can be used to articulate religious doubts and anxieties even as it exalts the saints; and he overturns the received attribution of Gerald's detailed Vita to Odo of Cluny, identifying it instead as the work of the infamous eleventh-century forger Ademar of Chabannes. Through his careful examination, the biographies and iconographies that mark the waxing and waning of Saint Gerald's cult tell an illuminating tale not only of how saints are remembered but also of how they are forgotten. 410 0$aMiddle Ages series. 606 $aChristian hagiography$xHistory$yTo 1500 606 $aChristian saints$zFrance$zAurilla$vBiography$vEarly works to 1800 610 $aHistory. 610 $aMedieval and Renaissance Studies. 610 $aReligion. 610 $aReligious Studies. 615 0$aChristian hagiography$xHistory 615 0$aChristian saints 676 $a270.3092 700 $aKuefler$b Mathew$0498530 701 2$aOdo$cSaint, Abbot of Cluny,$fapproximately 879-942.$0452729 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910815350103321 996 $aThe making and unmaking of a saint$93967252 997 $aUNINA